page_title: Urakami Station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Urakami Station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kyushu Railway Nagasaki Station building, circa 1899. Building was destroyed during the atomic bombing in 1945.
context_page_description: Urakami Station is a railway station in Kawaguchi-chō, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line. It is the station where the old line and new line sections of the Nagasaki Line intersect. In front of the station is the Urakami Ekimae stop on the Nagasaki Electric Tramway.
context_section_description: When this station first opened on July 22, 1897, it was called Nagasaki Station. Even today there is a stone monument in one corner of the station plaza which reads "The Site of Nagasaki Station" (「長崎駅址」). On August 9, 1945 the station was destroyed by the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
  1897-07-22 - Opens for business as Nagasaki Station, the terminal station of the Nagasaki Line of Kyushu Railways.
  1905-04-05 - The line extends and the station is renamed to Urakami Station.
  1907-07-01 - The station becomes nationally run according to the nationalization of Kyushu Railways.
  1909-10-12 - Japanese National Railways renames the line the Nagasaki Main Line (長崎本線).
  1945-08-09 - Damaged by the atomic bombing.
  1972-10-02 - The "new line" section of the Nagasaki Main Line opens and Urakami Station becomes a junction for the new and old sections of the line.
  1976-06-06 - The track between Tosu Station and Nagasaki Station (Nagasaki) becomes electrified.
  1987-04-01 - Japanese National Railways privatizes and JR Kyushu becomes the station's operator.
caption: View of the old station circa 1899.
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